Creepy music videos from Laibach

Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde rock group that enjoyed their greatest international success during the late 1980s through the mid-1990s. During that time, some effectively creepy videos were made to promote them and their albums. In fact, I consider the video for "Life Is Life" to be one of the creepiest videos I've ever seen. Take a look... let me know if you agree.



Similar thematically, creepy, but not quite as bone-chilling is the video for their cover of "Sympathy for the Devil".

Revelations... the Music Video!

Death metal with incomprehensible lyrics... Catholic Demon Hunters... Zombies... ... and an appearance by the always-fabulous Cheyenne King! What more can one ask for in a horror-themed music video?

Revelations (2010)
Starring: Sarah French, Cheyenne King, and Daigoro
Director: Eli Funaro
Rating: Six of Ten Stars

By the way, the people who worked on this low-budget video did a better job with the cheap digital gore effects than what I've seen in some recent big-budget, full-blown movies who have turned to the same technology. It's a sad commentary on how some effects artists are paid entirely too much for their incompetence; these guys should have been hired for "Machete", "Expendbles", and several other pathetic examples of crappy digital effects I could mention. On the downside... just what the hell is the song about? I think maybe I understood a total of five words out of four-five minutes of screeching.

'The One Who Got Away'--a zombie parody

As a counter-balance to the rather vile parody of the Katy Perry Song "In Another Life" ("Hitler's Suicide Note") that I posted at the main Cinema Steve blog earlier today, here's cute zombie apocalypse parody of the same song.

The MonaLisa Twins at Hotel California

In this post at Shades of Gray, I lamented the fact that I'd not see a good video for "Hotel California." It's a spooky song that BEGS for a great video treatment, yet no one has done one.

That said, teenaged Austrian sister-act the MonaLisa Twins has covered the Eagles classic AND been featured in a good video for it. It's still not the spooky mini-horror flick this song needs, but it's a good clip for a good cover of a great song.

Good advice from Chris De Burgh

Keep this in mind when you're Crossing Over....



(This song dates from 1982, and it's probably the best thing Chris De Burgh ever recorded. And that's setting aside that it's got some really creepy lyrics. Am I just an old fogey, or is it true that they simply don't make them like this anymore, what with all the Auto-tune and sampling shit that every other popular singer seems to be up to?)

'The Ferryman' by Rainer F. Engle

Blind Guardian: A Voice in the Dark

The song is "eh", but the video is pretty darn cool if viewed as a mini-horror movie. (From German metal band Blind Guardian's latest album....)

Meat Loaf: 'It's All Coming Back to Me Now'

Here's another fun and spooky video for a fine Jim Steinman song. All music videos should be this entertaining.

A Fourth of July Nightmare?

Submitted for your consideration: Erika David, a young lady whose singing voice and good looks made her a minor YouTube sensation and who was starting to climb the ladder to true celebrity. Her live performance of "God Bless America" before 100,000 baseball fans was to be a major break for her. But something went wrong, and Erika will discover that dreams have a subset we call nightmares.



Did Erika crumble under the pressure of performing in front of cameras and a huge crowd? Or was she merely singing "God Bless America" as it is known in the Twilight Zone?

Eine Kleine Schreckmusik

Insomnia strikes, I try to bore myself to sleep with Youtube... and what do I find, but mini-horror movie as the video for Blind Guardian's cover of "Mr. Sandman."



Pretty spooking stuff. I give it a rating of Ten Monstrous Clowns out of Ten. :)

Blind Guardian is a German metal band that's been around since the mid-1980s, and they pretty much single-handedly gave rise to the German metal scene. They've often been imitated and lampooned, but never equaled. Of particular interest to readers of this blog might be that the lyrics for their songs, written mostly by front-man Hansi Kursch, are often inspired by fantasy and horror literature.

Their best albums over the years have been "Tales from the Twilight World" (1990), "The Forgotten Tales" (1996), "A Night at the Opera" (2002), and their most recent effort "At the Edge of Time" (2010). (The video featured above was originally produced to promote "The Forgotten Tales", an album that's half quirky cover tunes.

Meat Loaf's 'I Would Do Anything for Love'

It's a great video for one of his greatest recordings. (It was directed by Michael Bay.)